Opportunity to comment on draft informal trading plans for Gatesville and Athlone.
The City of Cape Town is inviting the public to comment on the proposed draft informal trading plans for Gatesville and Athlone.
The public have until Friday, 31 July 2020 to submit their comments.
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public participation process has been initiated to give the communities an opportunity to comment on the proposals for the informal trading plans in the areas.
Changes in trading dynamics have triggered the need to review the current informal trading plans in order to address some of the challenges and to create an enabling, supportive and well managed trading environment for all users of these public spaces.
The following solutions are being considered: • Converting Gatesville CBD into a Friday and Saturday market and utilising the parking area for the envisaged market.
It is anticipated that by converting this to a market, and relocating traders to the parking area, illegal trading, trading in front of formal businesses and traffic
congestion will be minimised.
• Increasing the bay size from the current 4 square meters to a maximum of 12 square metres in the two areas.
• Including the informal businesses operating from the illegal structures in the trading plans.
• Introducing a precinct management approach in Gatesville.
• Introducing a traffic study on a model that will assist the City to address traffic congestion in Gatesville • Other considerations for the Athlone area include closing economically unviable bays and markets, the numbering of bays in a logical order to make it easy for Law Enforcement to enforce the Informal Trading By-law effectively, repair and upgrading of the debilitated trading structures.
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